Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks throughout a press convention after a Cupboard assembly to debate each commerce negotiations with the US and the state of affairs within the Center East, on the Nationwide Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on July 30, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will doubtless speak “over the following variety of days” after the U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on items not lined by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada commerce settlement, a Canadian official stated on Sunday.
Dominic LeBlanc, the federal cupboard minister in command of U.S.-Canada commerce, additionally informed CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” that he was “inspired” by latest discussions and believed a deal to deliver down tariffs remained an possibility.
“We’re inspired by the conversations with Secretary Lutnick and Ambassador Greer, however we’re not but the place we have to go to get the deal that is in the most effective curiosity of the 2 economies,” LeBlanc stated, referring to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer.
The commerce minister stated he anticipated Carney and Trump to talk “over the following variety of days.”
“We predict there may be an possibility of putting a deal that can deliver down a few of these tariffs present larger certainty to funding,” LeBlanc stated.
Washington linked Friday’s tariff announcement partly to what it stated was Canada’s failure to cease fentanyl smuggling. It was the most recent blow in a months-long tariff conflict which Trump initiated shortly after returning to energy this yr.
Carney says Canada accounts for simply 1% of U.S. fentanyl imports and has been working intensively to additional cut back the volumes.